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dalek_caan's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Dysphoria
Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Vomit, and Lesbophobia
fatfrog's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Medical trauma and Dysphoria
Moderate: Sexual content and Transphobia
deyonce54's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Dysphoria
Moderate: Body horror, Deadnaming, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Outing
Minor: Transphobia
andrewhatesham's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria
lauralintunen's review against another edition
Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, and Dysphoria
serinas's review against another edition
5.0
This is a graphic novel, and a memoir Maia eirself wrote. Maia goes by the pronouns e/em/eir and writes about the journey of finding out ones gender identity. This is obviously a pretty queer book, with themes surrounding sexuality and gender identity. Some of it might be triggering, like the misgendering, so beware of that before reading.
I am drawn to books like this, as I'm queer myself, and I have at times been struggling with my identity. Like who am I, who do I want to be - and does it really matter? Maia asks many of the same questions I once had, and describes eir journey on finding an identity eir felt comfortable with.
I rated it 5 stars. I loved the drawings and style that was used - and the way the memoir was written was to my taste. It was relateable in many ways, and a fun (but hard) read. It definitely made me question some things about myself.
I really enjoyed this, and would recommend it. You don't need to be queer to read it - it might give some insight into what people who don't identify as cis might struggle with. It might also be educational and help anyone who is struggling as well - with their gender or sexuality.
Just feeling like you aren't alone in your struggles are oftentimes enough - and Gender Queer made me feel less alone.
Graphic: Blood and Dysphoria
Moderate: Deadnaming
thespacejamber's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Medical trauma and Dysphoria
Minor: Blood and Vomit
lspbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma
Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Dysphoria
geckotigerwolf's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Blood, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria
Minor: Transphobia and Vomit
galacticvex's review against another edition
3.75
I struggled with some of the terminology (specifically around
all that said I found myself often resonating the experiences explored, and generally appreciated learning more about the ones I didn't have first hand knowledge of.
Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Cancer and Toxic relationship